Oklahoma Cardiac Nursing Jobs

The challenge of filling nursing jobs in Oklahoma may get more difficult before it gets easier. By 2012, Oklahoma is expected to have a shortage of more than 3,000 nurses if current trends continue. Like many other states, the main problem is a lack of nursing faculty and an aging population. What makes things more difficult in Oklahoma is that it is very rural, so recruitment is a challenge. Some hospitals are offering to pay some tuition for students who go into nursing, and offer nice signing bonuses to work full-time once they do.

Cardiac Nursing

Cardiac nurses care for patients who have problems with their heart and other related systems. These problems include conditions such as unstable angina, cardiac dysrhythmias, congested heart failure, and myocardial infarctions. Cardiac nurses have specialized skills, and practice within a sub-specialty area of nursing. Unlike nurses who work in other specialties, cardiac nurses know how to monitor telemetry patients, and they have a working knowledge about advanced cardiac life support and IV cardiac medications. Cardiac nurses work in hospitals, clinics, and they work in variety of areas such as CCU, ICU, Cardiac Cath labs, operating rooms, and Cardiac rehab. Cardiac nurses also work as home health nurses, caring for patients who are recovery from cardiac procedures and surgery.